MACALESTER    COLLEGE 

BULLETIN 


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Report  of  the  Trustees  of  Macalester  College  to  the 
Synod  of  Minnesota,  Worthington, 

October  1  0,  1  9 1  8    £rr 

Fathers  and  Brethren: 

Macalester  College  in  entering-  upon  the  thirty-third  year  of  its  scholastic 
history  faces  a  situation  entirely  new.  The  heavy  enlistment  of  the  men  of 
the  upper  classes  in  various  forms  of  Avar  work  leaves  the  advanced  courses 
almost  entirely  to  the  women  of  the  institution,  and  the  introduction  of  the 
Students'  Army  Training  Corps  lias  given  an  unusual  preponderance  of  men  to 
the  freshman  class.     There  are  now  enrolled  in  the  college: 

Men  Women 

Seniors   3  23 

Juniors   9  35 

Sophomores  24  42 

Freshmen 94  59 

130  159     Total     289 

Music    45 

Total  334 
The  task  of  properly  housing  the  student  soldiers  was  solved  to  the  com- 
plete satisfaction  of  the  representative  of  the  war  department,  the  entire  east 
wing  of  the  main  building  having  been  converted  into  barracks  providing 
accommodation  for  200  men.  Edward's  Hall  has  been  renovated  and  is  now 
used  as  a  mess  hall. 

That  educated  young  men  can  most  easily  adapt  themselves  to  the  exigen- 
cies of  military  discipline  and  leadership,  the  war  has  clearly  demonstrated.  It 
has  also  shown  that  the  marked  trend  of  recent  years  to  make  college  training 

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more  practical  will  become  even  more  defi- 
nite. Today  the  government  asks  the  edu- 
cational institutions  of  the  nation  to  assist 
in  mobilizing  the  young  manhood  of  America 
intellectually  and  spiritually  for  the  highest 
degree  of  military  efficiency.  This  offers  to 
the  distinctly  Christian  College  a  splendid 
opportunity  of  combining  with  thorough 
academic  discipline  the  inculcation  of  that 
philosophy  taught  by  the  greatest  of  teach- 
ers, whose  principles  are  the  only  sure 
foundation  for  the  civilization  of  the  world. 
Macalester  College  is  definitely  committed 
to  a  positive  Christian  view  of  life. 

Although  the  institution  has  ceased  to  ap- 
pear as  an  annex  to  the  theological  seVni- 
nary,  furnishing  each  year  a  large  number 
of  prospective  preachers  and  missionaries, 
Macalester  has  not  become  less  pronounced 
in  its  Christian  influence.  Increasingly  dur- 
ing recent  years  its  alumni  have  entered 
practically  every  honorable  walk  of  life  to 
perform  conscientiously  the  duties  of  Chris- 
tian citizenship. 

Under  the  direction  of  the  new  president, 
who  is  an  expert  vocational  guide,  the  stu- 
dents have  the  benefit  of  an  experienced  ad- 
viser in  ascertaining  the  vocation  for  which 
they  are  best  adapted  and  their  college 
course  is  arranged  as  far  as  possible  to 
realize  this  object. 

Dr.  Elmer  A.  Bess,  for  six  years  the  suc- 
cessful student  counselor  at  the  University 
of  Iowa,  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the 
presidency  last  January,  while  the  college 
was  observing  the  week  of  prayer.  Rev- 
erend Charles  R.  Adams  of  Champaign,  111., 
was  in  charge  of  the  meetings  and  by  his 
stimulating  and  inspiring  talks  did  much  to 
quicken  the  activities  of  the  Christian  or- 
ganizations and  to  arouse  a  deeper  religious 
interest  among  the  entire  student  tody.  As 
the  year  went  on  the  work  of  the  literary  so- 
cieties, forensics,  and  athletics  suffered  se- 
\  from  the  steady  loss  of  students  who 
left  college  in  order  to  enter  special  war 
Bervic*  On  June  12,  occurred  the  27th  An- 
nual Commencement  when  twelve  men  and 
nteen  women  obtained  their  bachelor 
lege  at  thai  time  confei  red 
rary  degr<  e  of  Doctor  of  Divinity 
on<  ol  i'  own  alumni,  the  Reverend 
I  Philadelphia,  and  upon  two 
synod,  Reverend 
Paden  ato    and   Rei 

rend  Jan  e     B    Lj  le  ol   All  erl   Lea      in  the 


judgment  of  the  older  faculty  members,  and 
in  the  opinion  of  many  alumni,  this  com- 
mencement was  exceptionally  felicitous. 
Class  reunions  and  the  alumni  bancmet  were 
characterized  by  enthusiastic  patriotic  dem- 
onstrations, and  the  commencement  address 
by  the  Reverend  John  Timothy  Stone,  D.  D., 
the  following  day  on  "The  Next  Fifty  Years" 
was  a  stirring  appeal  to  make  America 
translate  the  Christian  ideals  more  consist- 
ently into  every  phase  of  private  and  public 
life. 

During  the  past  year  death  removed  from 
the  inner  circle  of  the  college's  friends  two 
of  its  most  devoted  champions.  Shortly  be- 
fore Christmas,  Reverend  J.  T.  Henderson, 
D.  D.,  passed  into  his  eternal  reward.  He 
had  served  Macalester  admirably  as  finan- 
cial secretary  and  made  many  friends  for 
the  institution  by  his  pleasing  personality 
and  whole-hearted  devotion  to  the  college. 
His  sudden  death  cut  short  a  work  which 
promised  large  things  for  Macalester.  Again 
the  college  mourned  the  loss  of  another 
friend  in  the  death  of  Professor  Thomas 
Shaw  in  June.  In  the  darkest  days  of  Ma- 
calester's  history,  while  teaching  in  the 
State  University,  he  offered  his  unsolicited 
aid  to  the  trustees  of  this  college.  In  1898 
he  became  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trus- 
tees on  which  he  continued  to  serve  for  the 
next  twenty  years,  being  its  president  from 
1901  to  June  12,  1918,  when  he  was  made 
president  emeritus.  The  college  had  a  very 
large  place  in  his  life.  He  was  instrumental 
in  winning  for  it  the  friends  who  liquidated 
its  debt  and  secured  for  it  the  present  en- 
dowment, Wallace  Hall,  and  Carnegie 
Science  Hall.  He  labored  diligently  for  the 
development  of  the  college  and  contributed 
liberally  of  his  own  means,  and  ever  showed 
a  deep  interest  in  every  phase  of  Macales 
ter's  life.  God  give  us  more  such  loyal 
friends. 

Another  change  in  the  official  family  of 
Macalester  was  occasioned  by  the  removal 
of  Mr.  Charles  E.  MacKean  to  Philadelphia. 
He  was  a  trustee  from  1901-1907,  and  treas 
in  ci-  from  L901  to  June,  1918,  and  always  a 
loyal  supporter  of  the  Institution.  The  col 
lege  is  fortunate  in  securing  as  its  neAV 
treasurer  Mr.  John  Mitchel,  of  St.  Paul,  a 
man  widely  Known  as  a  leader  among  the 
bankers  ol  the  Northwest.  The  duties  of 
the  prei  Idency  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  have 
rail  en   upon   Mr.  Angus  MacLeod,  a   man  of 


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wide  experience  in  the  business  world  and 
sincerely  devoted  to  the  cause  of  Christian 
education.  Several  changes  have  occurred 
in  the  faculty.  Professor  Frederick  J.  Men- 
ger,  Jr.,  has  gone  into  business;  Professor 
Walter  Rathke  resigned  to  continue  gradu- 
ate work  at  the  University  of  Chicago;  Pro- 
fessor C.  W.  Knapp  has  taken  up  special 
war  work  for  the  government  in  France; 
Coach  Thacker  early  in  the  spring  entered 
into  army  Y.  M.  C.  A.  work  as  physical  di- 
rector at  Camp  Custer,  and  Miss  Gertrude 
Crist,  for  fourteen  years  a  teacher  of  com- 
mercial subjects  and  secretary  to  the  presi- 
dent, resigned  to  take  up  other  work. 

The  subjects  taught  by  Professor  Menger 
have  been  taken  over  by  Miss  Chalfant  and 
Miss  Doermann;  Professor  Pasmore,  Ph.  D., 
of  the  University  of  Illinois,  is  the  new 
teacher  of  French,  and  Ernest  Johnson,  an 
alumnus,  succeeds  Mr.  Thacker  as  athletic 
coach. 


The  burdens  of  war  have  prevented  the 
trustees  from  undertaking  a  further  endow- 
ment campaign  and  from  securing  the 
needed  new  buildings.  Indeed,  commence- 
ment week  the  trustees  faced  the  largest 
deficit  of  the  last  twenty  years,  but  true  to 
their  established  custom  of  wiping  out  be- 
fore commencement  day  all  outstanding  ob- 
ligations, they  again,  in  the  spirit  of  cheer- 
ful self-sacrificing,  liquidated  the  $10,000 
debt  on  current  expenses. 

Brethren,  the  trustees  of  Macalester  are 
full  of  optimism  for  the  development  of  the 
college,  but  they  urge  upon  you  a  fuller 
realization  of  the  obligations  involved  for 
you  as  members  of  the  synod  in  relation  to 
this  institution.  They  earnestly  solicit  your 
heartiest  co-operation. 

With  gratitude  to  God  for  His  gracious 
providence  in  the  years  that  have  gone,  we 
look  hopefully  into  the  future  as  we  plan 
for  a  larger  and  a  stronger  Macalester. 


Resolutions  of  Synod 


Two  most  significant  resolutions  were  in- 
troduced and  passed  by  Synod  through  the 
Committee  on  Colleges. 

The  first  one  was  that  every  church  in  the 
Synod  place  Macalester  in  its  annual  bud- 
get. This  was  to  be  in  addition  to  the 
amount  given  to  colleges  or  education.  The 
customary  sum  to  the  National  Board  was 
to  be  expected. 

Th~  second  resolution  reauested  that  each 
church  announce  during  the  month  of  No- 
vember, that  Macalester  College  was  open 
to  receive  individual  gifts  for  current  ex- 
penses or  endowment.  In  this  announce- 
ment Macalester  type  is  to  be  described 
with  a  view  to  making  an  appeal  for  stu- 
dents. 


A  letter  was  sent  out  from  the  college  by 
the  president,  suggesting  to  the  churches 
that  this  year  a  public  collection  be  taken 
as  early  as  possible  in  the  year,  for  Maca. 
ester.  The  ministers  were  asked  to  write 
what  action  had  been  taken  by  their  church 
in  placing  the  college  in  its  budget. 

There  are  very  many  reasons  why  this 
program  should  be  carefully  and  thoroughly 
prosecuted.  One  is  that  the  college  wishes 
to  enter  into  the  heart  life  of  each  church. 
It  needs  every  dollar  that  it  can  receive 
through  the  church,  but  it  is  more  anxious 
to  receive  a  position  in  the  routine  thought, 
plans,  and  gifts  of  the  church.  The  amount 
of  money  sent  to  the  institution  from  the 
church  as  an  organization  is  not  the  matter 
of  supreme  importance. 


Report  from  the  Synod 


Macalester  College  was  well  represented 
at  Synod.  Several  members  of  our  Board 
of  Trustees  were  present,  having  active 
places  upon  the  program.  On  the  opening 
evening  Mr.  Bishop  H.  Schriber  spoke  on 
"Minnesota  Dry."  Mr.  Angus  McLeod  pre- 
sented the  report  of  the  Board  of  Trustees 
and  addressed  the  Synod.  After  the  report 
Mr.  George  D.  Dayton  gave  an  address. 
Dr.  Murdock  McLeod  was  chairman  of  the 
Committee  on  Colleges,  and  President  E.  A. 
Bess  addressed  the  Synod  on  the  college, 
after  the  report  of  the  Board  of  Trustees. 
As  a  member  of  our  faculty,  Dr.  James  Wal- 
lace revealed  his  usual  capacity  in  four  ex- 


cellent addresses.  The  public  has  since 
read  the  remarkable  resolutions  he  intro- 
duced as  a  climax  to  these  addresses. 

A  matter  of  unusual  interest  arose 
through  the  revival  of  a  committee  of  long- 
standing. Reverend  Ebenezer  Ferry,  of  Fer- 
gus Falls,  had  been  the  chairman  of  a  Hig- 
gins  Memorial  Endowment  Committee. 
Nothing  had  been  done  with  it  because  of  a 
larger  endowment  campaign  launched  about 
the  time  of  its  inception.  The  Synod 
thought  wise  to  set  this  campaign  in  motion. 
Mr.  Ferry  was  instructed  to  co-operate  with 
the  Board  of  Trustees  in  carrying  out  the 
purposes    of    the    original    resolution.      The 


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amount  involved  is  fifty  thousand  dollars 
for  a  chair  of  some  subject  that  shall  reveal 
the  spirit  of  Frank  Higgins'  life. 

Of  considerable  moment  to  Macalester 
College  and  friends,  was  the  acceptance  by 
the  Synod  of  the  invitation  extended  by  the 
Board  of  Trustees  for  Synod  to  meet  at  Ma- 
calester College  next  year.  This  will  give 
the  college  an  opportunity  to  reveal  the  in- 
terest it  has  in  all  of  the  Presbyterian  pro- 
jects of  the  Synod.  The  college  belongs  to 
its  clientele.  The  Presbyterians  of  Minne- 
sota have  a  right  to  require  our  services 
whenever  needed  up  to  the  amount  of 
strength  that  we  possess.  The  president 
has  expressed  his  wish  to  cover  the  entire 
state  week  ends,  as  soon  as  possible,  wher- 
ever he  is  needed.  He  is  ready  to  go  for 
nothing  more  than  his  expenses.  Appoint- 
ments should  be  made  ahead  that  his  pro- 
gram may  be  cared  for  with  the  entire  state 
in  mind. 

THE  TERRITORY  OF  MACALESTER 

COLLEGE. 

Whereas  it  is  true  that  the  state  of  Min- 
nesota is  the  particular  territory  of  Macal- 
ester College,  it  is,  at  the  same  time,  true 
that  the  territory  is  wherever  it  may  find  its 
friends.  A  prominent  minister  in  a  large 
city  in  one  of  the  Northwestern  coast  states 
said  to  the  president  that  he  did  not  see  any 
reason  why  this  type  of  institution  in  a  cen- 
ter of  population  the  size  of  the  Twin  Cities 
should  not  make  a  particular  claim  upon  all 
of  the  territory  between  here  and  the  coast. 
.Many  Presbyterian  families  of  like  type 
would  desire  to  send  their  children  farther 
east,  to  a  small  and  Christian  institution  sit- 
uated in  a  populous  center.  That  sugges- 
tion raises  other  questions  of  a  similar  na- 


ture. Macalester  College's  ambition  should 
be  to  obtain  students  of  a  definitely  selected 
type  from  all  over  the  country,  wherever 
friends  of  this  type  of  institution  can  be 
made.  If  all  other  colleges  will  take  the 
same  position,  the  whole  country  will  be 
blessed  with  an  excellent  sort  of  propagan- 
da. This  does  not  cut  off  the  local  pro- 
prietorship through  the  state  of  Synod. 

THE  PROCESS  OF  SELECTING 
STUDENTS. 

Many  remarks  have  been  made  about  the 
type  of  men  Macalester  has  this  year.  It 
would  not  have  been  possible  to  handle  more 
lhan  two  hundred  for  the  Students'  Army 
Training  Corps.  Between  150  and  200  were 
to  be  expected.  However,  the  number  in 
the  S.  A.  T.  C.  is  little  more  than  100  in- 
ducted men.  There  are  others  under  age 
enrolled,  and  still  others  are  attending  as 
citizen  students.  Part  of  the  reason  for  a 
smaller  number  of  men  than  was  to  be  ex- 
pected, was  the  principle  of  selection  em- 
ployed. Not  only  high  standards  of  scholar- 
ship were  maintained  in  this  process,  but 
also  a  high  standard  of  type  of  students. 

This  indicates  a  principle  by  which  the 
institution  may  be  expected  to  build  its  fu- 
ture. The  type  of  women  is  clearly  defined 
as  of  an  unusually  high  grade,  in  aspira- 
tions, work  and  Christian  spirit.  This  can 
be  kept  up  along  with  the  type  of  men  to 
be  selected  in  the  future.  But  those  who 
are  beginning  have  voluntarily  associated 
themselves  with  the  college  in  the  choice  of 
the  right  kind  of  students.  The  policy  will 
not  fail;  the  institution  will  grow  up  to  the 
thousand  mark  some  day  expected,  if  this 
process  of  selection  can  be  consistently 
prosecuted. 


President's  Message  to  the  Colleges  of  the  Country 
Thru  Secretary  of  Interior  Lane 


The    White    House,   Washington. 

July  31,  1918. 
My  Dear  Mr.  Secretary: 

I  am  pleased  to  know  that  despite  the  Mi- 
ll  burdens  Imposed  upon  our  people  by 
the   war  they  have  maintained  their  schools 
find  other  agencies  of  education  bo  nearly  at 
their  normal  efficiency.     That  this  should  be 
continued   throughout   the   war  and   thai,  in 
-    draft    law    will    permit,    there 
•  f]  t><-  no  falling  off  in  attendance  in  ele- 
rr.enl  ools,  high  schools  or  colleges  is 

;i  matter  of  th<-  vo •>•  greatesl  Importance,  af- 
both   our   strength    in    war   and   our 
national  welfare  and  efficiency  when  the  war 
Bo  ion--  ;i    i  be  a  ar  i  out  Inuea  I  here 
nt  d<  ed  o\  \  '•!■■•  large  ouml 
of  men  and  women  ol  the  highest  and  most 

i 


lines.  After  the  war  there  will  be  urgent 
need  not  only  for  trained  leadership  in  all 
lines  of  industrial,  commercial,  social  and 
civic  life,  but  for  a  very  high  average  of  in- 
telligence and  preparation  on  the  part  of  all 
the  people.  I  would  therefore  urge  that  the 
people  continue  to  give  generous  support  to 
their  schools  of  all  grades  and  that  the 
schools  adjust  themselves  as  wisely  as  pos- 
sible to  the  new  conditions  to  the  end  that 
DO  boy  or  girl  shall  have  less  opportunity 
for  education  because  of  the  war  and  that 
the  nation  may  be  strengthened  as  it  can 
only  be  through  tin1  right  education  of  all 
its  people.     *     *     * 

Cordially  and  sincerely  yours, 

WOODKOW    WILSON. 

Hon.  Franklin  k.  Lane, 
Secretary  of  the  interior. 


MACALESTER  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


IN    MEMORIAM 

Professor   Thomas    Shaw 

Tribute  by  President  Elmer  Allen  Bess 


Mine  is  not  only  the  part  that  I  may  have 
as  a  representative  of  Macalester  College  of 
whose  Board  of  Trustees  Professor  Shaw 
was  president  for  so  long  a  time,  but  also 
the  part  of  a  fiiend  and  one  who  began  to 
love  him  at  first  sight.  I  can  remember  how 
we  went  together  last  fall  over  the  city  and 
over  the  Macalester  College  grounds,  and 
jokingly  I  said  to  him  at  the  time  that  he 
was  my  personal  conductor  in  this  first  en- 
trance to  the  understanding  of  the  work  that 
I  was  called  to  do. 

But  I  have  discovered  that  though  I  have 
not  been  able  to  be  a  great  deal  in  his  pres- 
ence nor  he  in  mine  on  account  of  the  cir- 
cumstances of  his  sickness,  his  spirit  has 
nevertheless  followed  me,  and  that  there  has 
been  an  atmosphere  that  has  been  around 
my  thoughts  by  which  I  have  been  guided 
very  largely. 

The  tribute  to  be  given  by  Macalester  Col- 
lege in  relation  to  his  influence  is  I  believe 
of  a  twofold  nature.  First,  the  spirit  that 
he  fostered  towards  the  college  has  char- 
acterized him  in  all  his  life  I  imagine.  Sec- 
ond, the  atmosphere  that  was  about  him  by 
which  those  who  had  adhered  to  the  college 
in  faithfulness  thought  of  him.  After  all 
that  is  the  inside  of  the  life  of  a  man  and 
it  is  also  the  reputation  of  a  man,  and  by 
these  forces  he  is  working.  So  did  our  good 
professor  work,  so  did  he  live. 

By  my  association  with  him  I  feel  that 
this  spirit  and  atmosphere  has  been  re- 
vealed by  a  wonderful  degree  of  love,  kind- 
ness, tenderness  and  thoughtfulness  when 
speaking  of  the  men  and  women  who  had 
been  associated  with  the  college.  Tender 
and  beautiful  were  his  expressions.  Grate- 
ful and  thoughtful  were  his  words.  Con- 
stantly he  spoke  of  this  professor  or  that, 
of  this  member  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  or 
that,  and  of  the  students  who  had  been  his 
in  other  years — his  to  love  and  to  foster  in 
his  influence.  Boys  and  girls  who  were 
now  men  and  women  in  far  off  lands  doing 
a  world's  service  he  followed  in  tenderness 


of  thought.  This  reference  to  his  old  stu- 
dents he  gave  me  while  upon  his  sick  bed. 

This  spirit  and  this  atmosphere  is  again 
revealed  by  his  hopefulness  for  the  future 
of  the  college.  During  those  days  that  were 
dark,  even  darker  than  these  days  that  are 
so  stressful  for  all  institutions  of  whatever 
nature,  he  looked  out  with  an  Isaiah's  faith. 
He  was  a  statesman  of  a  better  day.  He 
believed  in  the  brighter  hopes  and  of  the 
finer  future.  He  expressed  it  constantly  to 
me.  I  could  not  keep  him  from  talking  about 
the  college.  All  the  while  he  would  speak 
of  it  to  me,  and  always  in  that  hopeful  way 
that  gave  me  faith  to  go  back  into  the  work 
and  go  on  with  the  new  program  based  on 
the  policies  of  the  past. 

As  revealing  this  spirit  and  this  atmos- 
phere, and  as  illustrative  of  his  life  in  gen- 
eral, there  was  an  eager  readiness  for  sacri- 
fice in  any  emergency  connected  with  the 
college.  At  any  time  he  would  pack  up  his 
own  affairs  and  set  them  aside,  and  go  out 
for  a  day's  work  for  the  institution's  needs. 
At  any  time  he  would  set  aside  his  own  af- 
fairs and  do  something  for  some  student. 
In  sacrificial  spirit  he  lived  for  the  institu- 
tion, but  I  imagine  it  was  not  only  true  of 
the  college  but  of  other  institutions.  This 
was  also  true  of  those  close  around  him. 

It  may  have  been  that  he  might  have  been 
a  fighter  in  times  past  when  the  cause  ap- 
pealed to  him  as  sufficiently  righteous;  but 
at  the  same  time  he  was  willing  to  make  a 
marvellous  sacrifice  for  harmony  and  affec- 
tion. 

Then  I  realized  that  there  were  problems 
in  his  heart,  problems  that  he  brought  up  to 
all  of  us  when  we  came  in  close  contact  with 
him,  problems  of  the  future  for  the  institu- 
tion that  indicated  that  he  had  it  firmly  fixed 
in  his  thought.  As  we  spoke  of  the  new 
policies  for  the  college  I  found  he  was  ahead 
of  my  thought.  As  we  would  talk  of  our 
hope  in  regard  to  the  program  for  individual 
training  in  college  I  found  that  he  had  been 
thinking  broadly  and  keenly  seeing  the  ten- 


MACALESTER  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


I  dencies  of  education  today.  Even  so  he  en- 
tered into  all  the  departments  of  the  col- 
lege, and  likewise  put  himself  in  relation  to 
other  people  outside  of  this  particular  group 
understanding  their  point  of  view,  interpret- 
ing their  knowledge  and  becoming  a  wise 
counsellor  because  he  went  into  the  inner 
life  of  the  institutions  or  people  with  ana- 
lytical apprehension. 

As  revealing  his  spirit  and  the  atmosphere 
that  surrounded  him  I  think  that  last  of  all 
I  should  speak  of  the  genuine  and  sincere 
goodness    (to   which   Dr.   Wilson  has   so  ad- 


mirably referred).  Pure  goodness  perineal 
ed  all  his  thoughts  and  surrounded  all  his 
deeds.  Perhaps  Chaucer's  words  about  his 
good  parson  are  true  in  regard  to  him: 
"The  lore  of  Christ  and  His  Apostles  twelve 
he  taught,  but  first  he  followed  it  himselve.'' 
He  loved  his  Master.  He  followed  his  Mas- 
ter, and  gave  the  impression  unto  those  to 
whom  he  ministered  that  he  was  following 
the  way  of  Jesus  Christ.  Pure  goodness  he 
possessed,  and  others  could  not  help  but 
read  the  story  of  his  living — a  beautiful 
story  of  goodness  in  deeds,  conversation  and 
unsullied   reputation. 


A  Tribute  (abridged)  by  Rev.  Harry  Noble  Wilson,  Pastor  of 
Central  Presbyterian  Church,  St.  Paul 


When  a  great  man  is  called  home,  it  is 
difficult  to  sum  up  in  a  few  brief  words  a 
proper  estimate  of  his  character  and  achieve- 
ments. True  indeed  is  this,  when  the  man's 
greatness  consists  in  the  application  of  one 
peculiar  gift  to  the  use  of  mankind.  But 
when,  as  is  the  case  in  this  instance,  the 
gifts  are  many,  and  have  been  used  in  many 
ways,  the  task  is,  indeed,  doubly  hard. 

Professor  Thomas  Shaw  was  an  educator, 
author,  editor,  agriculturist,  Bible  teacher 
and  Christian  scholar.  He  is  known  every- 
where in  the  Northwest  as  the  builder  of  an 
empire  of  rich  acres.  The  science  of  dry 
farming,  which  has  added  millions  of  acres 
to  our  public  domain,  had  in  him  its  best  in 
terpreter  and  sanest  advocate. 

Professor  Shaw  was  born  on  a  farm  in 
Ontario  on  the  third  of  January,  eighteen 
hundred  and  forty-three.  It  was  my  rich 
privilege,  as  his  intimate  friend,  to  have  him 
place  in  my  hands  the  manuscript  of  a  book 
just  written,  and  which  is  yet  in  the  print 
er's  hands,  that  in  a  luminous  and  pictur- 
esque description  told  the  wonderful  story 
of  the  development  of  that  village  in  which 
he  was  brought  up,  that  village  which  had 
rged  in  the  wilds  of  early  Canada  a  lit- 
tle before  he  was  born.  It  told  the  story  of 
the  families  who  lived  there,  the  story  of 
the  neighbors  whom  he  knew  as  a  boy.  It 
aled  the  ideals  and  shaping  of  the  new 
there.  In  this  booh  I  read  of  his  own 
family  and  hie  own  upbringing,  of  the  sturdy, 
ous,  God-fearing  ancestry 
And  after  I  bad  read  it,  I 
sd  do  more  a1  'if-  sterling  qualities 
earnesl  purpose  ol  our  friend's  life  thai 
could  be  seen  In  I  Ion  and  heard  In 

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Keen  of  perception,  tireless  in  his  indus- 
try, with  a  marvellous  grasp  of  any  problem 
to  which  he  gave  his  thought,  a  little  wonder 
that  he  made  a  complete  mastery  of  the  sub- 
ject of  agriculture  and  allied  industries. 

Fifteen  books  on  agricultural  subjects  are 
in  use  in  our  best  institutions.  A  mass  of 
technical  and  popular  articles  published  in 
the  best  journals  have  reached  and  inspired 
hundreds  of  thousands,  and  they  are  but  a 
pait,  and  a  part  only,  of  the  splendid  legacy 
he  has  left  to  the  world.  Even  when  sick- 
ness came  and  when  he  could  not  but  realize 
that  the  end  was  approaching,  still  he 
worked  on  and  many  of  you  have  read  with- 
in the  last  few  weeks  articles  in  the  local 
paper  that  he  penned  upon  his  sick  bed. 

He  began  his  teaching  work  in  Ontario, 
the  birthplace  of  his  friend,  Mr.  James  J. 
Hill,  and  twenty-five  years  ago  he  came  here 
to  take  his  place  as  a  leading  authority  on 
agriculture  in  the  Northwest. 

He  had  the  confidence  of  the  great  and 
the  small.  As  author,  editor,  professor  in 
the  Minnesota  Agricultural  College  and  ag- 
ricultural expert  for  the  Great  Northern  and 
Northern  Pacific  railroads,  as  lecturer  and 
guide,  he  has  influenced  the  whole  Noth- 
west  as  few  men  have  been  permitted  to  do 
in  the  same  way. 

Rut  it  is  net  of  this  great  and  important 
side  of  his  life  work,  vastly  important  as  it 
is,  that  I  would  call  your  attention  in  this 
service  of  memorial.  It  is  something  better, 
•  thing  greater.  As  Ins  pastor  and  friend, 
I  want  to  emphasize  that  which  he  always 
emphasized  under  every  condition,  his  re- 
ligious life  and  work.  The  Church  of  Jesus 
Christ  was  to  him  Cod's  groai  means  for 
winning  the  world  from  sin  to  redemption. 


MACALESTER  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


To  the  Church  he  gave  his  choicest  thought. 
Jjl  he  Church  he  gave  unsparingly  of  his 
tin:e,  ability,  means  and  service.  For  twen- 
ty-tree years  he  has  been  a  ruling  elder  in 
the  Central  Presbyterian  Church.  Dr.  Mel- 
drum  said  of  him  that  he  was  one  of  the 
most  remarkable  men  that  he  ever  knew  in 
a  session;  and  I  can  bear  testimony  after 
eleven  years  of  close  companionship  with 
him  that  this  is  now  true. 

He  loved  the  Bible.  It  was  to  him  the 
Word  of  God.  He  knew  it  as  few  men  knew 
it.  He  studied  it  as  few 'men  studied  it.  He 
taught  it  with  a  vigor,  and  freshness  and 
unction  that  few  men  have  brought  to  its 
teachings.  For  many  years  he  has  con- 
ducted the  Bible  class,  and  he  made  it 
known  far  and  wide  as  a  place  of  sane,  pow- 
erful presentation  of  the  inspired  Book. 

One  message  I  would  bring  to  you,  a  mes- 
sage he  himself  uttered  at  the  Fiftieth  An- 
niversary of  Central  Chtirch. 

"Here  is  what  a  layman  can  do.  He  can 
give  of  his  gifts  to  Christ.  I  do  not  speak 
of  money  gifts  nowr.  -I  speak  of  gifts  that 
are  of  far  more  value  than  any  money  gifts, 
and  that  almost  anyone  can  give.  Think  of 
it.     Work  that  the  angels  of  heaven  would 


gladly  come  down  and  do  if  God  commis- 
sioned them.  That  work  is  within  your 
reach." 

In  these  words  we  reach  the  moving  pow- 
er of  his  whole  life. 

Among  the  books  he  has  left  behind  as  a 
product  of  his  ability  and  toil  is  one  that 
he  himself  prized  beyond  all  his  other  work, 
"Polishing  Gems"— a  work  that  sums  up  his 
religious  ideals  and  experiences.  Let  me 
bring  to  you  from  him  the  closing  message. 
It  will  cheer  and  comfort  you. 

"Oh  the  height,  and  the  depth,  and  the 
length,  and  the  breadth  of  the  tenderness 
of  that  bond  which  still  binds  the  living  to 
the  dead.  Shall  we  not  praise  God  that  it 
is  so?  Is  it  not  evidence  of  the  imperishable 
nature  of  the  chain  or  better  still  is  it  not 
an  evidence  of  the  imperishable  nature  of 
the  chain  that  binds  the  living  here  and 
those  who  have  gone  to  live  in  the  land  of 
over  there?  Let  those  who  will  cherish  the 
cDmforter's  belief  that  this  life  tells  the 
whole  story,  ours  shall  be  a  faith  that  cher- 
ishes the  conviction  that  life  here  is  but  the 
vestibule  of  the  imperishable  eclipse  be- 
yond." 


1 


Macalester  Men  in  Service 

Macalester's  part  in  the  great  world  war  is  shown  by  the  following  table: 


Army  Capt. 

Infantry 1 

Artillery  and  Ordnance 1 

Cavalry 

Signal  Corps 

tank 

Medical  and  Hospital    4 

Aviation 2 

Engineer l 


Lieut.  Sergeant  Corp.     Private 

19  13  2  45 

6  3  ..  5 

1 

2  ..  "i 

1  ..  1 

4  5  l  19 

5  1  ..  11 
114  7 


Total 

80 

15 

1 

5 

2 

33 

19 

14 


Marines 
Regular. 
Aviation' 


2 


169 

19 
3 


Navy 

Regular. 
Aviation 
Hospital 


Ensign 
2 


31 

10 

3 


21 

33 

10 

3 


Nurses.  . . . 
Chaplains. 
V.  M.  C.  A. 
Civilian    .  . 


46 

3 

2 

5 


Army 

Marines 

Navy 

Miscellaneous 


169 
21 
46 

18 


Total  , 254 


3  0112  105876384 

MACALESTER.  COLLEGE  BULLETIN 


PROFESSOR  THOMAS  SHAW 


Elected  member  of  Board  of  Trustees  1898 

President  of  Board  of  Trustees  from  1901  to  June  12,  I918, 
when  he  was  made  President  Emeritus 


